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• MelbourneMark Posts: 3,843 Captain

  March 2015 #2

  I used to drive the turnpike and beach line(528) daily for my old job. There is an amazing amount of wildlife on those roads. 528 in particular would have 2 groups of turkeys, about 20 each. And, I would see about 10 deer every morning. Large gators would sit on the shorelines of the ponds. I saw a panther one evening as well.

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• gator4ever Posts: 2,647 Captain

  March 2015 #3

  It is all due to large private ranches.
  
  Mostly owned by Sugar cane growers that made millions by the truck load when sugar went sky high in the mid 70s.
  
  Resmondo
  Wedgeworth
  Mace
  Knight
  Rogers
  Hundley
  
  They all invested in that area back then.

  "sometimes it's OK just to kill a little time" my grandpa 1972

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• binellishtr Posts: 8,797 Admiral

  March 2015 #4

  i saw about 7 deer yesterday afternoon feeding about 3 oclock all inside the 3 lakes area along the pike on the way down. No doubt the local wma's benefit from the big ranches

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• FLDXT Posts: 2,521 Captain

  March 2015 #5

  gator4ever wrote: »

  It is all due to large private ranches.
  
  Mostly owned by Sugar cane growers that made millions by the truck load when sugar went sky high in the mid 70s.
  
  Resmondo
  Wedgeworth
  Mace
  Knight
  Rogers
  Hundley
  
  They all invested in that area back then.

  
  Funny how that works. Amazing how you rarely see them along the road near three lakes.

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